national broadband network

  • Coalition NBN Policy: Six Things To Think About

    The Liberal/National Coalition has finally announced its official National Broadband Network (NBN) policy, confirming its preference for fibre to the premises and claiming it can deliver this faster than the current Labor plan, without actually making good on earlier threats to dismantle NBN Co entirely. What are the key elements of the Coalition plan, and…


  • The Coalition’s Vague Plan For A New National Broadband Network

    Over the Australia Day long weekend, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott released a plan for the nation called “Real Solutions”. It’s a 27-page document that outlines a whole mess of stuff, including what the Coalition plans to do for the nation’s broadband infrastructure. Rather than real solutions, however, the document just looks like hollow talk from…


  • How Fast Will The Coalition Broadband Network Be?

    Malcolm Turnbull paid ABC’s 7:30 a visit yesterday to talk about the Coalition’s broadband plan, and at this stage, I think there is more information in the public domain about the iPhone 6 than there is the Coalition’s broadband plan. Nevertheless between all the government bashing-this and the too expensive and slow-that, Turnbull got down…